A Joining of Self
Suella Holland
PhotoIreland
English
Softcover
Edition of 200
32 pages
148 × 210 mm
2024
ISBN Not Available
A Joining of Self is a site-specific portrait of fragmented childhood recollections of abuse, incorporating memories of different fabrics, dissociative experiences and phrases of manipulation that were used to threaten and enforce secrecy. Using photography to document, Holland pushes her boundaries by exploring a home identical to her childhood residence. By stitching phrases that were said to silence her onto familiar fabrics—some of which were recreated from family album images—and by choosing to record these memories on film using the abuser’s twin lens reflex camera, Holland confronts her inner struggles and transforms her emotions and recollections into visual expression. Long withheld memories are subtly exposed and hint at and communicate the unsaid. A reclamation of power, A Joining of Self comes face to face with Holland’s past and ultimately breaks a silence that has been kept for forty years.
(source: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/collections/tlp-editions/products/a-joining-of-self-suella-holland)
About the Artist
Suella Holland is an Irish photographer from Navan. Her 2013 series Forsaken Ireland documented abandoned buildings across Ireland.
suellahollandphotography.wordpress.com
(source: http://www.meathartsgroup.ie/members/g-to-l/suella-holland/)
About the Series
TLP Editions are an ongoing collection of contemporary photographic projects in the form of accessible and inexpensive publications by PhotoIreland. These A5 sized booklets present a standard format throughout the series, with 36 pages each, a cover with a text block of under 140 words that introduces the project, and the title and the artist name only available on the contra cover. The project creates a node of opportunities as it allows photographers to enter the publishing arena, while facilitating access to contemporary artistic practices to the general public.
thelibraryproject.ie
(source: https://www.100archive.com/projects/tlp-editions)
About the Publisher
Founded in 2009, PhotoIreland was conceived as an organisation to stimulate a dialogue around photography in Ireland by developing a varied array of initiatives and events with a strong participative approach.
photoireland.org
(source: https://wiki.photoireland.org/publications/new-irish-works-the-passenger-ailbhe-ni-bhriain/)
